[ga-udrp] Greenpeace loses cybersquatting case

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

Greenpeace loses cybersquatting case
By Reuters
June 8, 2001, 10:05 a.m. PT

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6226015.html

Nuclear processing agency Cogema has won a cybersquatting case against
Greenpeace International, having the environmentalists evicted from a site
bearing its name. An arbitrator appointed by the World Intellectual Property
Organization ruled that Cogema.org should be transferred to the French
agency. Greenpeace registered the name last July, saying it was using the
Internet for peaceful protest against the nuclear energy business.

The arbitrator found the domain name was confusingly similar to the agency's
68 trademarks held in 26 countries. Greenpeace had no right or legitimate
interest in the domain name, which had been registered in bad faith, the
ruling said. Cogema in a statement accused Greenpeace of trying to "tarnish"
its name with "systematic denigrations, accusations and actions" performed
while bearing its name. Greenpeace argues that Cogema's reprocessing plant
on France's Channel coast is responsible for high levels of radioactive
discharge into the North Sea.

Story Copyright © 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.


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